Quote from: newtons1 on October 15, 2015, 05:05:12 AM

How does the overall community feel about dooglus giving positive trust to a scammer ponzi who ended up stealing at least 0.1 BTC? I think this might be forgivable if it is a one time occurrence and the offending party (dooglus in this case) wee to reimburse those who lose money because of his positive trust rating (he was saying that the scamming ponzi should be trusted when this was not a true statement.

I think what happened with the scamming ponzi was a form of trust farming because someone on Default Trust gave them positive trust when such positive trust was not due. It has been speculated a couple of times today in a thread that I created about this scamming ponzi that dooglus might have been selling his positive trust.

People should be aware that this account is a likely alt of Quickseller, he's been on a slam-dooglus mission for approximately ~2 months.

Quote from: Blazed on October 15, 2015, 05:59:25 AM

Being in the trust network means you should call them out. While you are at it feel free to look over my sent feedbacks also. We are supposed to be held to a higher standard. Look at Tspacepilot now...he is green for nothing. Give him 6 months and he will have great trust for no reason at all lol. Nothing against him, but he got free trust with no deals.

Since you brought it up, I may as well respond. (1) I got positive ratings, not inclusion in any trust list (that I know of); (2) I also have been given "free" negative ratings with no deals: they were from a known scammer Tradefortress for what were effectively lies against me and I then acquired further negatives for "free", still with no deals, these being from from 3 or 4 of Quickseller's alts (one of them has since been removed) in an attempt to smear me away from these forums because I dared to disagree with him and call him out on his temper.

As to my "free" positive rating, when I continued to stand up to QS' bullying, he continued to bring in more and more alts and sockpuppets to try to smear me. When dooglus stood up to him and effectively made him account for his bullying behavior, he brought in yet another alt, which was crucial in outing his escrow scam. Side note: you can see QS doing this same attack vectors against dooglus and Vod nowadays (although, I suspect he'll get a lot less far against them than he did against me because effectively, I'm a nobody around here and dooglus and Vod have long reputations with many backers). QS's continual sockpuppetry ended up outing an escrow scam he was running in which he was stealing escrow fees from his customers, and several people gave me positive ratings for investigating and reporting this. You can call that "nothing" if you want to, but I guess I think you have to consider the standard in two directions: if it was okay for TF and QS to neg-rep me without any "deals", then why wouldn't it be okay for other people to positive rate me without any "deals". If it's not okay to neg-rep without deals, then I could see your point that I shouldn't be positive rated just for outing a thief.

In any case, I don't really need or want the green-ratings, as you say, I don't trade around here and I have no plans to begin doing so. But I do think that if you don't like people getting positive rated without deals, then you ought to consider whether it's okay to negative rate without deals. Just my two satoshis.